Check if your LinkedIn Password is stolen?

LinkedIn Blog confirms that the passwords were compromised
http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/06/06/linkedin-member-passwords-compromised/

CNN confirms 6 million + Linkedin Passwords stolen
http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/06/technology/linkedin-password-hack/?source=linkedin 

With the outbreak of this news all of us are worried if we are one of the 6.5 million victims whose linkedin passwords have been stolen aren’t we? 

Linkedin_hacked

Well, for people like us there is LastPass – a password management platform providing a free service that would let us check and know if our password was stolen. Here’s what we need to do:

Just click the link: https://lastpass.com/linkedin/

And enter your password and check if it you were a victim or not, you will be shown a result something like this:

Linkedin_pwd
If you have already changed your password great you can still check with your old password as this site checks with the leaked passwords.

Since this is coming from a password management firm, we believe this to be secure.

If you have not changed the password yet, it would be a good idea to change it even if it is not compromised by clicking here: www.linkedin.com/passwordReset

If you are using the same password for other sites (gmail, yahoo, facebook etc), then make sure you change all of them, since there is a definite possibility that hackers would try to use this password to hack into other accounts.

Remember : Passwords are like underwear – do not show them in public, the longer the better, do not share with others and keep changing often!!

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